Nina Simone's music is incredibly honest. That's like saying, "Why does Jesus' word still stay around?" It's incredibly honest and it's good.

Black love is black wealth

Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it.

I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, "If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on." I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.

You do what you can with what you have. You have to work the edges whatever they are. The main thing is keeping your integrity.

But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.